Which One Is Best?
28/Jan/2013 20:15
The new web site has created a reasonable amount of positive and encouraging feedback. Along with the congratulations and commendations, there have also been some helpful suggestions for improvements to the site. I sincerely appreciate all suggestions for improvement. I might not agree with what everyone says, but I certainly am grateful and respectful for all who do offer opinions.
Another suggestion was to add images to this blog, and to use better photographs on the home page of the web site.
First, I’ll try to add a photograph to this blog entry…
(it turns out it’s fairly simple: I control-clicked the blank space above this line, and saw that the context-sensitive menu contained the command “import image”; that looked almost too easy, but I tried it; it turns out that it was too easy (that command was designed to import an image directly from a camera; after that, I tried the “paste” command, after copying an image to the clipboard, and that worked quite well).
Now, I’ll address the suggestion that I post my “best” photographs on the main page of this web site. As the introduction (summary) to this blog entry suggested, it is not at all easy to select a “best” image. I’ve taken tens of thousands of photographs over the last fifty or so years, and a lot of them can quickly be discarded as “not the best”. I do have a few hundred favourites from the rest, though, but even those images don’t contain a clear “winner” in the “best photograph contest”. I could work on a point-system, and give marks for bokeh, fill-the-frame, rule-of-thirds, clarity, uniqueness, and a variety of other attributes, but I doubt that that would do any good. What is “best” to you, might not be what I like at all: subjectivity and taste and whim and background and mood all play a part in deciding what is an appealing photograph. So, you’ll be seeing different images on the home page of this web site, depending on my desire to change them, and my mood at the time I do change them. I hope you find them interesting, whether or not you like them. Think of them as my “favourites”, but remember that that only means they’re among my favourite thousand or so photographs.
Another suggestion was to add images to this blog, and to use better photographs on the home page of the web site.
First, I’ll try to add a photograph to this blog entry…
(it turns out it’s fairly simple: I control-clicked the blank space above this line, and saw that the context-sensitive menu contained the command “import image”; that looked almost too easy, but I tried it; it turns out that it was too easy (that command was designed to import an image directly from a camera; after that, I tried the “paste” command, after copying an image to the clipboard, and that worked quite well).
Now, I’ll address the suggestion that I post my “best” photographs on the main page of this web site. As the introduction (summary) to this blog entry suggested, it is not at all easy to select a “best” image. I’ve taken tens of thousands of photographs over the last fifty or so years, and a lot of them can quickly be discarded as “not the best”. I do have a few hundred favourites from the rest, though, but even those images don’t contain a clear “winner” in the “best photograph contest”. I could work on a point-system, and give marks for bokeh, fill-the-frame, rule-of-thirds, clarity, uniqueness, and a variety of other attributes, but I doubt that that would do any good. What is “best” to you, might not be what I like at all: subjectivity and taste and whim and background and mood all play a part in deciding what is an appealing photograph. So, you’ll be seeing different images on the home page of this web site, depending on my desire to change them, and my mood at the time I do change them. I hope you find them interesting, whether or not you like them. Think of them as my “favourites”, but remember that that only means they’re among my favourite thousand or so photographs.